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Listener comments!

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Wed. 7/3/13 6:42am
Ken:
Morning everybody! Just starting the playlist early, as an experiment. No July 4th special today per se, but I am very interested in good songs about surveillance, dystopia and the post-Orwellian world in which we live.

Wed. 7/3/13 9:40am
jan:
Ken: According to the Times, Lou Reed Reviews Kanye West's 'Yeezus,' and He Likes It. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/lou-reed-reviews-kanye-wests-yeezus-and-he-likes-it/Your thoughts? And more to the point, can you play some of his music for those of us who haven't heard it yet?

Wed. 7/3/13 9:42am
F‽F‽ (:
Really very nice live version from the Relatives!!

Wed. 7/3/13 9:43am
Michael:
Re. Khomeini: Story idea: The mediævally-minded who reject science suddenly can't use any of the technology that are its fruits...paradoxical, as that's kind of mediævally-minded itself, the Universe acting as if it were moral and its morals coïncidentally matching mine....

Wed. 7/3/13 9:56am
Duvid:
Here in Watertown, Ma, 'soldiers in the streets' feels different after the APC in the street and the guys with ARs checking out our shed and trying to see if we were being held hostage, a couple of months back. I could see the point, but hated the sight.

Wed. 7/3/13 10:15am
Billy Jam:
Morning Ken, just joining now. Re songs about surveillance there is a great hip-hop track by Azeem with Variable Unit titled "Under Surveillance" that was originally on the album "Mayhem Mystics" and that I included on my 2006 WFMU Marathon Mix ("Bring that beat back 2006 Surveillance Mix - WFMU/BIllyJam") - Love all the animated gifs today

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Wed. 7/3/13 10:19am
bobdoesthings:
anyone!? I must find out! what was that vocal ?!

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Wed. 7/3/13 10:20am
Dave B:
I'll have some of whatever he was on... and make it a double.

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Wed. 7/3/13 10:20am
Roberto:
Only thing better than a Joni Mitchell tune? A Joni Mitchell tune in another language.

Wed. 7/3/13 10:20am
Jeff:
Those boat shows are fun! I'm sure they're a pain in the ass though. Always welcome to broadcast from the bosom of central NJ in my screened in porch. Swampy ass remote works too! Try to make it happen!

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Wed. 7/3/13 10:34am
tim from champaign:
How can I get the NSA to surveil me? I'm not religious but sometimes feel that confession would be good for me. I think an NSA surveillance would be ideal for that need.

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Wed. 7/3/13 10:43am
Roberto:
The ending of that song came early too.

Wed. 7/3/13 10:45am
still b/p:
Jolly and surveilling impulses can work together...and, as ever, for our own good:
He sees you when you're sleeping,
He knows when you're awake,
He knows if you've been bad or good,
So be good for goodness sake.

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Wed. 7/3/13 10:49am
MD:
"I must not think bad thoughts! I must not think bad thoughts! I must not think bad thoughts! I must not think bad thoughts! I must not think bad thoughts! I must not think bad thoughts! I must not think bad thoughts I must not think bad thoughts!"

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Wed. 7/3/13 11:08am
Webhamster Henry:
Security State Soundtrack: how about some Conet Project Number Stations .. followed by Owada?

Wed. 7/3/13 11:08am
Lucy:
Good morning western people's, greetings from a New Yorker currently in Istanbul! I'm learning acrobatic accordion playing street performance with a sweet German guy on Istiklal street. Have a good show Mr Ken!

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Wed. 7/3/13 11:13am
Roberto:
Oy I remember these radio spots from when I was about seven years old. In one of them a guy was told his son had died of an overdose. Except to a seven-year-old it sounded like "overghost."

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Wed. 7/3/13 11:48am
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
...I sometimes give heroin to my cat whilst listening to this show & staring @ her unnaturally perfect dentition...but that's just me
...NSB goes a long way towards relieving my missing Zoogz Rift these days...not all the way - but a long way...

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Wed. 7/3/13 11:51am
Caryn:
Hi all! Finally here!
Gif check:
-"Little Rascals"
-Geraldine character in "The Flip Wilson Show"
-"Meatballs"
-"Hackers"
-That's the back of Gene Hackman's head as he talks with Harrison Ford in "The Conversation"
-Herzog in "Julien Donkey-Boy"
-Near the end of Hitchcock's "Saboteur"
-"Chillerama"

Wed. 7/3/13 11:52am
steve:
RTD - i missed it, haven't heard it in probably 2+ years, and yet i still regularly think of it

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Wed. 7/3/13 12:13pm
Caryn:
Yeah, the poodle thing was a parody of a Susan Powter exercise video, and was part of Panasonic's series of shorts made when they were preparing for the Athens Olympics.
The "war gif" was the Brigitte Bardot gif from "Babette Goes to War" (by the Marzipan Marzipan track).